Stephen Rea
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Language
English
Description
In 2004, Belfast-born Stephen Rea moved to New Orleans, a city where "football" means something entirely different than what it does back home. After struggling to find a place to watch European soccer games, Rea discovered Finn McCool's pub and its mixed clientele of good-humored European ex-pats, charismatic New Orleanians, and assorted matchless personalities. Before long he was playing on the pub's motley over-thirty-five fledgling soccer team....
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (468 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two siblings, Nessa and Ephra Stein, children of a Zionist arms procurer, now run a foundation aiming to reduce the conflict through increasing Palestine's economic prosperity. When Nessa's foundation is about to announce a major business contract with a prominent Palestinian businessman, he is found dead in an apparent suicide. As doubt circles around his cause of death, an international investigation turns into a manhunt.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1947, the friendship of a young Catholic boy, Michael (Peter Tambakis) with a Czech rabbi (Stephen Rea) inspires the wrath of a local Irish street gang, a situation that boils over when Michael witnesses the vicious beating of a Jewish shopkeeper. Soon, Michael has lost his childhood best friends and is forced to turn for help to an ancient Jewish text with the power to summon a supernatural protector.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody's lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus changes his name and gets a job as a day laborer. He starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing about Fergus' real background....
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, the story of a young working-class woman, Evey, who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as 'V.' Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, 'V' ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about 'V's' mysterious background, she also discovers...
8) Ondine
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Syracuse, a simple fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawler nets. The woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuse's eyes and he thinks he may be seeing things. However, with the help of his ailing yet irrepressible daughter, Annie, he comes to believe that the fantastical might be possible and that the woman (Ondine) might be a myth come true.
10) The reaping
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Investigative scholar Katherine Winter is a debunker of modern 'miracles, ' bringing scientific light to superstition and fraud. But events in Haven, Louisiana, defy even her expertise. There, the 10 Biblical Plagues, including locusts, frogs and a river of blood, seem to be recurring. And the more she seeks answers, the more she questions her own beliefs.
11) Citizen X
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Viktor Burakov (Rea), a brilliant forensics expert but an inexperienced detective, is put in charge of investigating the case of a serial killer. As the number of victims continues to rise, the investigation slows to a standstill, buried under government red tape.
12) Evelyn
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1953, Desmond Doyle takes on the Irish family law system and the Catholic Church in a bid to be reunited with his children. Despite a strong work ethic, Desmond has a hard time holding on to steady work. Desmond's wife walks out on the relationship and his sporadic employment eventually attracts the attention of the law. A court order sends his two sons and young daughter to separate Catholic orphanages until Desmond can prove he's capable of properly...
13) Life is sweet
Series
Criterion collection volume 659
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
14) The butcher boy
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Francie lives with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother. The pressures on Francie to grow up are immense. When his mother commits suicide and his friend, Joe, goes off to boarding school, Francie sinks ever deeper into paranoia thanks mainly to his nasty neighbour Mrs. Nugent. He begins to have a fantasy where he has visions of the Virgin Mary. After his father dies, Francie becomes more despondent, culminating in the...
15) Dickensian
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3 videodiscs (approximately 615 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A bold reinvention of Charles Dickens' timeless novels, it takes familiar characters on new journeys as their stories intersect in the same world. Discover the events that lead up to Miss Havisham's wedding day, the true sacrifices made by a young Lady Dedlock, what happens to ruthless moneylender Jacob Marley and more. One doesn't need to know Dickens' novels to fall in love with these stories--packed with romance, scandal and intrigue, they deliver...
16) Greta
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to the widowed Greta. The two become fast friends, but the older woman's maternal charms begin to dissolve...
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Language
English
Description
William Barrow finds himself in lonely retirement in West Cork. Once an internationally renowned pianist, a terrible skin disease has attacked his hands and made it impossible for him to perform.
Tara is a piano teacher with barely enough pupils to pay the month's rent. In the local café, the elegant writing of a job advertisement catches her eye: 'WANTED. HOUSEKEEPER.'
She begins to work in William's house, keeping to herself the knowledge that...
18) Flesh and blood
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Helen, Jake and Natalie are thrown into disarray when their recently widowed mother announces her love for a new man. Their suspicion of the newcomer triggers events in the siblings' own love lives, which begin to spiral out of control. Can the family pull together, or will old rifts and new conflicts push them apart, even to the point of violence?
19) The miracle club
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1967, a heartwarming film that follows the story of three generations of close friends, Lily, Eileen, and Dolly of Ballygar, a hard-knocks community in Dublin, who have one tantalizing dream: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes, that place of miracles that draws millions of visitors each year. When the chance to win presents itself, the women seize it. However, just before their trip, their old friend Chrissie arrives in...
20) The musketeer
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young man comes of age and decides to avenge the brutal murder of his parents. In a world threatened by war, and finding he has impressive combat skills, he finds the opportunity he is looking for in the elite fighting force of the infamous Musketeers. After years of disgrace, he reunites the group and brings them back to their previous glory. Along his journey, he helps the Queen of France and finds love.